parasitegirl | The Colonel (Reply)

It’s getting closer to Christmas, which means that almost every statue of the Colonel in front of every KFC in Japan is wearing his Santa suit. One of the Colonels in my nearby city Kashiwa never gets a suit, but that’s because that location has two Colonels, an anomaly I’d often wondered at, and only one gets suited up. The Colonels of Japan always amaze me by not being the major targets of vandalism or abuse. Most of them still have their wire-frame glasses on! I feel that I am safe in saying that this would not be the case in America.

Saturday night, when the Puppy and I were walking home, he pointed to a parking lot with a projected ad for a new bar. M’s Club has bought some sort of simple light projector which they’ve set up across from the joint (in the aforementioned little lot) and it stands there in the evenings, unguarded.

I told Puppy that I was disappointed in the youths of Japan. Back home this thing would already be in someone’s basement. “Don’t you kids STEAL things? Hell even my mom stole a Taco Bell trash can in the shape of a cactus! Me? It was a golf course flag to remember a fine night!”

Puppy told me that he and his friends HAD stolen something...The Colonel. They’d made off with him, hidden him in the woods, and brought him back weeks later.

“Wait, was this from Kashiwa?”

“Yes.”

“You’re why that KFC has TWO Colonels? They replaced him before you guys did?”

“Yes!”

“I’d always wondered...”